American Literary Realism

Editor: Gary Scharnhorst

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Current Volume: 56 (2023-2024)
Issued three times per year (Fall, Winter, and Spring)
ISSN: 0002-9823
eISSN: 1940-5103
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For over fifty years, American Literary Realism has brought readers critical essays on American literature from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The whole panorama of great authors from this key transition period in American literary history, including Henry James, Edith Wharton, Mark Twain, and many others, is discussed in articles, book reviews, critical essays, bibliographies, documents, and notes on all related topics. Each issue is also a valuable bibliographic resource. Recent issues have included essays on Jack London and Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

Indexes

The Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature (ABELL), America: History and Life, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Book Review Digest Plus (H.W. Wilson), Brepols, Current Abstracts, Dietrich's Index Philosophicus, EBSCO, Gale Academic OneFile, Gale Literature: Book Review Index, Gale OneFile: High School Edition, Humanities Abstracts (H.W. Wilson), Humanities Index (Online), Humanities International Complete, Humanities International Index, Humanities Source, Humanities Source Ultimate, IBZ - Internationale Bibliographie der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Zeitschriftenliteratur, InfoTrac Custom, Internationale Bibliographie der Rezensionen Geistes - und Sozialwissenschaftlicher Literatur, MLA International Bibliography, OmniFile Full Text Mega (H.W. Wilson), OmniFile Full Text Select (H.W. Wilson), Periodicals Index Online, Personal Alert (E-mail), Poetry & Short Story Reference Center, RILM Abstracts of Music Literature, Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies, Scopus, TOC Premier, Web of Science

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Editors

Editor
Gary Scharnhorst
Department of English
Humanities 217
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-1106
(505) 277-3015
Fax: (505) 277-5573
gscharn@unm.edu

Editor
Henry B. Wonham

Editorial Board

  • Donna M. Campbell, Washington State University
  • Jeanne Campbell Reesman, University of Texas at San Antonio
  • Hsuan Hsu, Concordia University, Montreal
  • Alan Gribben, Auburn University, Montgomery
  • Denise D. Knight, SUNY-Cortland
  • Tara Penry, Boise State University
  • Thomas Quirk, University of Missouri, Columbia
  • Kenneth M. Roemer, University of Texas, Arlington



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American Literary Realism publishes critical essays, bibliographies, documents, notes, and reviews concerning the period of American Realism. Two copies of the manuscript should be submitted with a self-addressed stamped envelope to the editors,

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University of New Mexico,

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Featured Articles



Lessons from the “City of Print”
Ayendy Bonifacio, Kelley Kreitz, Mark Noonan
https://doi.org/10.5406/amerlitereal.53.2.0117
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/774687

Teaching Realism of Jim Crow America
Sherita L. Johnson
https://doi.org/10.5406/amerlitereal.53.3.0204
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/786889

Keeping Queer Company in the Short Fiction of Alice French
Meg Gillette
https://doi.org/10.5406/amerlitereal.53.2.0138
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/774689

The Oxford Handbook of American Literary Realism ed. by Keith Newlin (review)
Harold H. Kolb
https://doi.org/10.5406/amerlitereal.53.2.0183
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/774694

Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and the Place of Culture by Julie Olin-Ammentorp (review)
Charles Johanningsmeier
https://doi.org/10.5406/amerlitereal.53.2.0177
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/774693

Mark Twain's Lost “Burlesque Hamlet”
Gary Scharnhorst
https://doi.org/10.5406/amerlitereal.53.3.0272
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/amerlitereal.53.3.0272?refreqid=excelsior%3Ac7c53dfd40ad56c5991f7e33b8f5c8e3

Realism and Reconstruction: A Comparative Perspective
Cody Marrs
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article/886200

Sutton E. Griggs and Thomas R. Dixon: A Reconstruction Call and Response
Tim Bruno
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article/886201

Prophesying Citizenship in Edward A. Johnson's Light Ahead for the Negro
Annemarie Mott Ewing
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article/886202

Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt and the Double Time of Motherhood
Stephanie Burt
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article/886203

"The Black Princess" and Black Editors: The (Re)Making of Piatt's "Most Anthologized Poem"
Karin L. Hooks
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article/886204

Rebecca Harding Davis' Feminist Focus: Irony as the Best Available Means
Nanette Hilton
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article/905083

Newland Archer's Crisis of (Im)mobility: Gendered Routes of Travel in The Age of Innocence
Gary Totten
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article/905084

War Scenes in One of Ours and The Red Badge of Courage
Kim Vanderlaan
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article/905085

Performing Slavery and Freedom, 1875–1897: The Return of Henry Box Brown to North America
Martha J. Cutter
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article/905086

Isa Glenn's Heat Imperialist Meltdowns through a Cool Jamesian Lens
Veronica Makowsky
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article/905087

Corresponding Stories: Dreiser’s Red Typewriter in Russia, Ruth Epperson Kennell
Julia Mickenberg
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article/916478

Volumes: Charles Chesnutt and the Racial History of the Stenographic Imagination
Susanna Ashton
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article/916479

O. Henry’s Cosmopolitanism; or, the American Collideoscope
Marshall Brown
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article/916480

Edith Wharton’s “The Last Asset” and Decision-Making Under Uncertainty
John A. Weymark
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article/916481

The Custom of the Country: The Melodrama of Remarriage
Rex Butler
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article/916482

Ella Higginson, Pacific Northwest Indigeneity, and National Identity
Laura Laffrado
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/alr/article/56/3/196/387198/Ella-Higginson-Pacific-Northwest-Indigeneity-and

Telling the Story of the “Stranger People”: Archaeological Imaginaries and Indigenous Encounters in Mary Noailles Murfree's Regionalist Fiction
Myrto Drizou
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/alr/article/56/3/212/387196/Telling-the-Story-of-the-Stranger-People

Vegetal Variability: Gender, Regionalism, and the Spontaneous Movement of Plants
Patrick Morgan
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/alr/article/56/3/227/387203/Vegetal-Variability-Gender-Regionalism-and-the

Playing at Empire: Sexuality, Artistry, and Indian Play as Technologies of Colonization in The Song of the Lark
Mary Jessica Levan Lawrence
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/alr/article/56/3/243/387197/Playing-at-Empire-Sexuality-Artistry-and-Indian

A Nation of Suburbans: Standardizing American Life, Language, and Literature
Adam Nemmers
https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/alr/article/56/3/259/387201/A-Nation-of-Suburbans-Standardizing-American-Life

In Sickness and in Health: Surviving Marriage in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’ Gates Pentalogy
Lisa A. Long
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article/934462

Victorian Poets and the Later Realism of Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt
Matthew Martello
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article/934463

A World Made Flesh: Ecologies of Health in Rebecca Harding Davis’ Life in the Iron Mills
James Fitz Gerald
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article/934464

Helen Hunt Jackson, Indigeneity, and the Borders of Regionalism in Western American Literature
Lesley Ginsberg
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article/934465

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman on the Suffrage Movement: A Recovered Document
Jennifer M. Nader
https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/article/934466

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